CVE-2024-9779 (GCVE-0-2024-9779)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-17 22:59 – Updated: 2026-02-25 20:19
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Title
Open-cluster-management-io/ocm: cluster-manager permissions may allow a worker node to obtain service account tokens
Summary
A flaw was found in Open Cluster Management (OCM) when a user has access to the worker nodes which contain the cluster-manager or klusterlet deployments. The cluster-manager deployment uses a service account with the same name "cluster-manager" which is bound to a ClusterRole also named "cluster-manager", which includes the permission to create Pod resources. If this deployment runs a pod on an attacker-controlled node, the attacker can obtain the cluster-manager's token and steal any service account token by creating and mounting the target service account to control the whole cluster.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-18 15:15 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1082 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Affected: 0.12.0
Unaffected: 0.13.0
Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2     cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2
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Date Public
2023-11-30 00:00
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Nanzi Yang and Xingyu Liu for reporting this issue.
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